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On the inevitable day when Heaven calls and historians gather to assess Pope Francis’ pontificate the metaphor of a roller coaster will surely be invoked by some.
Editorial: Caught in legal crossfire
By Catholic Register EditorialThose with keen eyes for systemic abuses within the legal world might turn their gazes on a class action lawsuit that has left publicly hanging two Canadian Roman Catholic Cardinals.
Editorial: MAiD: confusion to delirium
By Catholic Register EditorialThe director of the B.C. Aboriginal Network on Disability Society perfectly summarized last week’s delay in extending doctor-delivered death to the mentally ill. “It’s not like a win or anything,” Neil Belanger told Register reporter Anna Farrow.
Editorial: The dignity in social media
By Catholic Register EditorialIn the week that we looked into the online mirror and saw pornographic deep fakes of Taylor Swift staring back, Canada’s Catholic bishops published a compelling pastoral letter on Christian engagement with social media.
Editorial: Catholics beware
By Catholic Register EditorialJordan Peterson put a target on his own back several years ago by speaking clearly and simply against mandated use of “gendered” pronouns and proper names. More recently, his critics have mocked him mercilessly as a cartoonish poster boy for the conservative “anger-tainment” industry.
Editorial: On the side of real justice
By Catholic Register EditorialIt’s hardly The Catholic Register’s place to editorially sermonize our separated fellow Christians in the United Church about their theology.
Editorial: Clear up our moral clarity
By Catholic Register EditorialPope Francis has called out Russia with full papal moral clarity for its invasion of Ukraine. It’s good to see the Canadian government also getting its own story straight. Better late than never.
Editorial: No business like your business
By Catholic Register EditorialIn one of those glorious paradoxes ubiquitous in Christian faith, instantaneous argy-bargy over the Vatican’s pre-Christmas document on blessing “irregular” relationships served to recall the supremacy of Christ among us.
Editorial: Marriage in the balance
By Catholic Register EditorialThe Vatican’s surprise — some might say bombshell — declaration that “irregular” domestic partnerships can be blessed by Catholic clergy will be welcomed like a Christmas gift by advocates and beneficiaries.
Editorial: Charity instilled in Catholic hearts
By Catholic Register EditorialThrough the spring and fall of 2023, The Catholic Register and our partners at The B.C. Catholic, Catholic Conscience and the Religion & Journalism Project taught on-line classes in Catholic journalism.
Editorial: Culturally safe for who?
By Catholic Register EditorialIn Health Canada’s latest voluminous annual report on Canadian MAiD’s “evolution” to world-leading status, the minister in charge highlights Ottawa’s commitment to “culturally safe” medicalized killing of Indigenous peoples.